Charlottetown man jailed for selling drugs to police agent

A 23-year-old Charlottetown man was sentenced in provincial court to serve 16 months in the provincial correctional centre for his involvement in drug trafficking.

Stephen Robert John MacDonald was charged after he sold cannabis to an agent of the police.

Upon release from custody, MacDonald will be placed on probation for two years.

Chief Provincial Court Judge Nancy Orr also ordered the accused to either seek employment or further his education.

He is to refrain from associating with anyone his probation officer tells him to have no contact with.

MacDonald was one of several people charged with drug-related offences as a result of Project Lunge, a joint federal drug investigation between the RCMP federal investigations unit and Stratford RCMP and the RCMP in New Brunswick.